Missing Mitten Prompts Generous Gesture

Fifth-grader Catherine Poten was on safety patrol duty – a leadership
program in which older students escort kindergartners from their bus to
their classroom – when she noticed her charge was visibly upset.

“I asked her what was wrong and she said she lost her mitten,” Catherine said.

Catherine tried to keep her calm by asking her favorite color – pink –
and then brought her to her classroom. When Catherine went home that
day, she told her parents what had happened and her dad took her to the
store to get the child a new pair of mittens. “Kindness comes from our
hearts,” Catherine said, before adding that the little girl wears the
new mittens almost every day.